hello friends;

finally i gave up searching topics describing similar problems because nothing lead me to the finish line.

here\'s my problem i\'m fighting with: i am running amarok 1.3-beta1 on my suse9.3 (kde 3.4) with arts as sound output. i can manage media but am not able to play any of the sound files. amarok gives no error information or something, neither in a gui window, nor in the command line.

i\'m a little confused, because, i.e. kaffeine plays sound very well. so which one of my settings can be wrong??

greets
danube

what\'s up? am i alone with this kind of troubles?? no ideas out there?

If kaffeine works, try the xine engine.

thanks for replying...!
sorry, but xine doesn\'t appear in the audio engines. i\'m able to select \'aRts\', \'GStreamer\' and \'aKode\'. nothing of them works... :huh:

Post edited by: danube, at: 2005/06/29 22:55

it\'s prolly mp3\'s only, which it won\'t play. suse removed the mp3 support recently. see our wiki / faq, you need to get a certain suse package!

...muesli

works. great! thank you for this hint!
muesli, may you write a hint in the faq to restart the computer after installing the patch so that changes take effect and amarok will work correctly again?

but... why did they stop mp3 support? i thought mp3 is a free2have codec??

thanks,
danube

No, mp3 isn\'t free.

Erm, restarting shouldn\'t be necesary. Restarting X at the very most.

amarok didn\'t run before performing a reboot. don\'t know if it\'s enough to restart x, but it seems that you have to restart something. don\'t doing that causes amarok not to run!